Theocracy

Theocracy or religious rulers tend to enacct very strict (religiously based/inspired) laws and are intolerant towards any citicen who is not a member/follower of their religion. They also tend to see things in black and white - after all God's word is supreme and absolute - doing God's work is a justification for anything.

From 500 to 1500 CE, China was not a theocracy in the traditional sense, as it was primarily governed by emperors who held political power rather than religious leaders. However, Confucianism, which emphasized moral governance and social harmony, deeply influenced the state ideology and bureaucratic system. Additionally, Buddhism and Daoism played significant roles in spiritual life, but the state maintained control over religious practices, ensuring that religion served the interests of the imperial authority rather than functioning as an independent governing force. Thus, while religion was integral to governance, China did not operate as a theocracy during this period.

Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan etc

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No Iraq is not a theocracy at the moment.

Iraq, since before the formal naming of the Iraqi nation as Iraq and before many of the religions themselves, had been a civilized nation with a strong culture for millenniums. Religions were gradually embraced upon their arrivals with no particular revolutionary civil bloodshed or power grabs (in general) as was the case for many other nations. The exeptions of the pseudo theocracies of the Abbassids, Ottomans and Buyyids and similar caliphate empires are difficult to explain, but we will keep that aside for now.

Eventually Christianity and Islam were the main major remnants of followed religions in Iraq, (with Christians currently fleeing to other Christian majority Western nations with better economies and less impact from wars due to modern ease of international transportation). However since Independence, no theocracy existed. A brief monarchy followed by a military autocracy did, however. This was, despite not being "democratic", one of the finest times for Iraq and made it one of the richest nations in the world with, in line with its thousands of years of tradition, a highly civilized and beautiful country and culture.

Iraq has ranged in its type of government over the past century, including Pan-Arab Nationalism and Secularism, however, a theocracy has never been Iraq's profile. Not to say that theocracy was necessarily always bad, but it wasn't recently the form of government there.

Despite the existence of religious holy sites in Iraq, and a correspondingly culturally-conservative (yet extremely tolerant) culture, the Political-Islamic agendas notable in other Muslim majority countries do not exist locally due to the different Islamic School of thought adhered to by Iraqis than the contemporary Wahhabi-salafist extremist Ideology that is currently gaining popularity. Wahhabist school of thought was rejected historically by the majority of prominent Islamic schools until this day, yet is recently gaining popularity by petro dollars in other places such as Egypt and also due to historic hegemony of Western and previous Imperialism on the alternative of regional Arab Nationalism. This extremism is still widely frowned upon in Iraq. Western intervention in the region has often experienced difficulty (or appeared to experience difficulty) in differentiating between anti-occupational sentiment and their arch enemy of religious extremism, and generally upset the fragile balance of the region and make a huge mess that will eventually have worldwide reaching implications.

Even though one of the major school of thoughts followed, the Twelver Jaafari Jurisprudence, has showed potential to develop theocratic style political interpretation such as in Iran, such a model was not popular in Iraq and previously refused by many of the followers of that particular branch in Iraqi politics, such as the current Prime Minister.

The current constitution tries to ensure that all ethnicities of Iraqis of all the different religious backgrounds get represented in the central civil government, at the same time with the efforts of doing that through democratic elections. At the same time they are members of the Arab league and have a majority Arab population, a population who, as a whole, historically feel culturally threatened by Persians, Western Imperialism, Kurdish Separatists and Jewish Zionist Invasions.

Iraqis, however tough they may come across as, are kind, simple folk that can unfortunately sometimes be also easily manipulated and steered in particular directions Ideologically. So future outcomes can be difficult to predict.

Theo derives from the Greek word Theos meaning god.

how wouldnt it affect the view of salem residents toward witchcraft?

Theocracy is derived from the combination of the Greek words "theos" meaning god and kratein meaning rule of. So it literally means "rule by gods"

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One example of a theocracy government is Iran

The opposite of theocracy.

Not many. As we know a theocracy is defined as a government set up, in which god/deity is the surpereme ruler. it's Rules and customs are based on the particular religion. So for example, if the United States were a theocracy, it would be Mandatory to go to church on Sundays. It would be illegal to believe in other gods. You have no rights. The only right you have, is what preached by the church.

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Every one is so united and willing to serve there God or gods if it is in there will.

two negatives of theocracy

The Leaders of the church have the power, and is derived from God.

In a number of the Sumerian City-States, the priests wielded direct political power. This would make them theocracies.

Positives: You won't have to do the country votes

By definition, a theocracy is a government headed by God, so the selection of theocratic leaders would be at the choosing of God.

A Christian theocracy is a system of government in which religious authorities rule in the name of God, and religious law is considered supreme. It often involves strict adherence to religious doctrines and rules in governing society, with clergy holding significant political power. Examples include the Papal States in medieval Europe and certain Puritan colonies in America.